The Masquerader (play)

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The Masquerader is a 1917 play by the American weiter John Hunter Booth. It premiered in New York City on 3 September 1917.^[1] It was based on the 1904 novel The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston. A leading British politician chooses to swap places with his cousin, a journalist who is his doppelganger. This leads to a dilemma for his wife who falls in love with the double.